I printed the photos in groups of 4 with two pairs of identical photos in each group. Then I cut the middle out of one of the pair to set in the paper relief.
1. left photo - I used tissue crumpled, squeezed and spread with baking parchment to resemble the background of the photo.
right photo - I used a lot of watered PVA and pressed parts of the tissue so it was very transparent and left other barely adhering to create the low relief of the background.
2. left - gathered and pleated 3 ply tissue for the foreground leaves over 1ply crumpled tissue background
right - I found in my experiments that the fine hand made paper was very feathery at the edges when torn. I exploited this and tore along the embedded fibres to represent the flavour of these lovely old man's beard seed pods.
3. left - the icicle photo was layered and waved in Adobe photoshop - I cut contours from copy paper for the icicles and made the waves from snipped 1 ply tissue.
right - crumpled and smoothed tissue many times and applied to a watery glued background. It looked more even when wet; dried the places I pressed more were darker.
4. left - a very gluey background - applied tissue and swirled with my finger, then added v shaped swirls on top. The bottom chunky bits were tissue softly folded into humps.
right - more icicles- background with layered 1 ply tissue - icicles of bubble wrap from a padded envelope, keeping the backing to get the shiny bumpy look.
5. left - made a fairly flat background with manipulated tissue on glue so the foreground would show up better. The Queen Anne's lace seed pod was made from a plastic straw finely split.
right - the contours were built with layers of tissue then a piece of crumpled 1 ply tissue was glued over the top and pressed into the hollows.
2 comments:
Fabulous idea to display them like this.Love the fact they are in black and white as it shows the textures better than colour might.
We have as much snow as we had last week just when we thought we were coming out of it!
Hello Hazel, I have just been catching up with your blog. Very impressed with your photos and the way you have manipulated and used them.
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